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11/17/2013

Shock, Even the liberal Chicago Tribune is calling for Obamacare to be dumped

As problems continue to pile up, and they will, the pressure will continue to build. It is pretty amazing when someplace like the Chicago Tribune pushes Obama for violating the law. From the Chicago Tribune:

On some level, then, the president plainly agrees with critics of Obamacare, this page included, that the law needs to be rewritten: He and his administration keep rewriting its major components — remember the mandate that sizable employers offer coverage in 2014? — as practicalities and politics demand.

But in this country we don't change bad laws by presidential fiat. We change them by having Congress rewrite them or by starting from scratch. Obama doesn't want to reopen this law for fear that Republicans and some Democrats will substantially rewrite it. But that's what has to happen. . . .

Many of the Americans who heard their president say Thursday that "we fumbled the rollout of this health care law" would have been pleased to hear him add: So we're admitting it. This law is a bust. We're starting over.